Every category where a model named Absorb LMS for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Learning management systems	Learning and development	11%	3 of 74	0%	34	accepted challenger
Compliance training	Learning and development	7%	5 of 80	0%	17	accepted challenger
Learning experience platforms	Learning and development	7%	6 of 80	0%	22	accepted challenger
Course authoring tools	Learning and development	5%	6 of 86	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Articulate 360 at 22%
Online course libraries	Learning and development	0%	17 of 73	10%	10	accepted challenger
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	49 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Absorb LMS yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Absorb LMS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	4	3	0	8
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	2	0	7
Perplexity Sonar	1	5	3	0	9
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	2	5	0	10
Mistral Small	2	3	4	0	9
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	5	4	1	10
Llama 4 Maverick	2	2	4	0	8
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	4	1	0	6
Kimi K2	0	6	3	0	9
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	6	2	0	8
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	2	0	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct61 labels16

Paraphrase42 labels6

Comparative61 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels1

Scale-constrained25 labels2

Negative11 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative223 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 28 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Absorb LMS - a highly-rated LMS that is ideal for mid-market and enterprise teams managing compliance, multi-audience training, and branded learning portals.” Llama 4 Maverick · Course authoring tools · direct prompt · first choice

“the best LMS is usually Absorb LMS if you want the strongest balance of scalability, reporting, automation, and corporate-training fit” GPT-5.4 mini · Learning management syst · direct prompt · first choice

“Absorb LMS is built for mid-sized organizations that want core employee training functionality without a long implementation process.” Llama 4 Maverick · Learning management syst · direct prompt · first choice

“Absorb LMS and Litmos are excellent for comprehensive training needs, especially compliance and multi-audience training.” Mistral Small · Course authoring tools · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Watch out for: Pricing is typically custom and sits at the higher end of mid-market budgets.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Online course libraries · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Absorb LMS, over the 223 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Absorb LMS was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Docebo153 of 22329Not in the top three

Cornerstone OnDemand110 of 2238Not in the top three

360Learning103 of 2236Not in the top three

TalentLMS102 of 22331Compare →

LearnUpon61 of 2237Compare →

SAP Litmos52 of 2230Not in the top three

Moodle46 of 2231Not in the top three

iSpring Learn32 of 2232Not in the top three

LinkedIn Learning28 of 2235Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors Learning25 of 2233Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Absorb LMS. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 189 of the 223 answers that named Absorb LMS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

docebo.com80

goskills.com58

g2.com54

proprofstraining.com53

d2l.com49

learn.g2.com49

peoplemanagingpeople.com46

360learning.com45

valamis.com44

talentlms.com43

521 of the 521 domain citations in answers naming Absorb LMS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

proprofstraining.com/blog/b2b-lms39

intellum.com/resources/blog/best-enterprise-lms-platforms35

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/corporate-learning-management-systems30

goskills.com/resources/learning-experience-platforms29

valamis.com/blog/best-compliance-training-software29

digitalhumans.com/blog/the-10-best-learning-experience-platforms-lxp-reviewed-for-202628

docebo.com/learning-network/blog/best-learning-management-system27

goskills.com/resources/best-lms-compared25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Absorb LMS

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Absorb LMS; a claim can dispute any of them.

Absorb 13

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